Thursday Links Roundup #4
July 25,2008
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Welcome to the fourth edition of the Thursday Links Roundup. Hope you like this one!
P.S: Once I finish compiling this list, I’ll give the Roundup it’s own page, where you can view all of the them. And oh, send your recommendations for future roundups in the comments!
NOTE: I’ve compiled all of the Roundups done here. The list will automatically be updated in future too.
Web Development
Providing Equivalent Alternatives - Arnold explains the importance of using attributes like alt=”" and title=”" to increase accessibility.
Understanding Web Design - A bit old, but evergreen nonetheless! A great article on what web design really is, and some of the rights and wrongs in the field.
How To Make Your Own Default Avatar in 5 Minutes - Avatars are great to make your blog feel like home to your visitors. Read this tutorial on how to create a default avatar(displayed if the commenter has no avatar) that works.
Enhanced Sidebars with Dynamic Content - For WordPress users, this tutorial describes how to use conditional tags to make your sidebar come to life. A technique used here on PBF too.
Social-Media, Blogging
Is Social Media a Waste of Time? - Similar to what I said recently. Is it really worthwhile?
The Ultimate WordPress Commenting System - A list of great plugins to make commenting a bed of roses for your readers!
Is the blogging tips niche for blogs dead? - An argument for the viewpoint that the blogging tips niche is too overcrowded. Quite convincing.
A Beginners Guide to Blogging - Choosing a Topic - A good, comprehensible guide on choosing a niche for your blog.
10 Aspects of an Effective Social Media Campaign - How to develop a social media campaign that works.
Off-Topic
Once every while, we have to get off our blogs and do something else for a change, to freshen us up and break the monotony. I’m a big advocate of this concept 
How to be happy - Part 1 - If you’re not happy and you know it…
How to be happy - Part 2 - Part 2 of the above article.
The best password-remembering tip you’ll ever encounter - Build a strong password, without ever forgetting it!
5 Easy Backup Solutions for Linux - Linux fan? Learn how to easily backup your data.
Office Space of Creative People - How does your office space look like?
A Note
I’m going to create a separate dedicated page for the Thursday Links Roundups, so you can get all of them in one place! Keep checking this post for updates. . The page is here.
Also, the point of these roundups is to bring to the front relatively unknown bloggers and designers and writers and such, and to showcase their productivity and creativity. If you would like to have your content linked to in these roundups, or to recommend some, send in a request in the comments!
Thanks to Uqbar for the cover image of the Links Roundups
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A nice collection of articles. I’m honored to find mine amongst these. Thanks for the link.
sailor - I’m privileged to include your articles
Thanks for the link!
Thanks so much for the link Siyab.
WildBill - It’s a privilege
Nice list of links, some of them were really interesting.
Thanks for the link love. Glad you found the post helpful.
How i wish some of my articles are also here,,,
Hey nice list… keep them coming!
Thanks for the link, matey. One tip: you might want to remove the Digg button from the post. Digg doesn’t usually like blogging, and you’d be better off placing a badge on a case-by-case basis if you have a post that is getting popular slowly, on Digg.
Cheers
-Su